Brief Bio: Nian Sun is a professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a reserach scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, USAF Summer Faculty Fellowship, and the first prize IDEMA Fellowship. His research has been on integrated magnetics and multiferroics for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics. He has over 170 publications, and more than 20 patents and patent disclosures. One of their papers was selected as "the 10 most outstanding full papers in the past ten years (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials". Dr. Sun has given 98 invited presentations or seminars in national and international conferences, universities and research labs. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and a fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Here is the link to his Google Scholar profile.

News/Events

Weekly group meeting: Friday 3-5 pm, Dana 442.

Dr. Satoru Emori got named to Forbes' "30 Under 30 in Science" list. Congratulations Satoru for this well-deserved recognition.

Prof. Yoshio Okata from Harvard Medical School gave us an invited talk entitled "Non-invasive assessment of electrophysiology of developing human brain: Engineering issues" on Tuesday, December 9, 2014.

Dr. Sakyo Hirose from Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. gave us an invited talk on "Mutual control of magnetization and electric polarization by electric and magnetic fields at room temperature in Z and Y-type hexaferrites" on Thursday, December 4, 2014.

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Quandt from U. Kiel, Germany gave us an invited talk entitled "Magnetic domain control of exchange biased magneto-electric thin film composites" on Tuesday, December 2, 2014.

We are now part of The NSF Nanosystems ERC for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS) led by UCLA. Cheers!

We (Nian Sun and Matteo Rinaldi from ECE, and Prof. Sydney Cash from Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital) are funded by the W.M. Keck Foundation to study "Nanofabricated Neural Probes with Ultra-Sensitive Integrated Compact RF NEMS Magnetoelectric Sensors for Electro-Magneto-Brain Activity Map". The W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics is also started at the same time in Northeastern University. Cheers!

We had the honor to host, co-organize and participate in the Power Supply on Chip International Workshop, 2014 (PwrSoC2014) at Northeastern University between Oct. 5~8, 2014. Cheers!

Dr. Carl Boone gave us an invited talk entitled " Dynamics, Damping, and Spin Transport in Spintronic Thin Film Multilayers", September 30, 2014.

Dr. Zhi Ning Chen, Professor of Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore gave an invited talk on "Metamaterials-based Antennas: My Thinking", September 25, 2014.

Dr. Ivan Lisenkov from Oakland University / Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences gave us an invited talk "Arrays of magnetic nanodots as a new reconfigurable magnetic material for magnonic applications", September 12, 2014.

Nian gave a presentation at the Gordon Reserach Conference (GRC) on Multiferroics and Magnetoelectrics, entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" at Biddeford, ME, on August 12, 2014.

Nian gave a presentation at the 2014 NSF Workshop on Noninvasive Imaging of Brain Function at Arlington, VA, entitled "Nanofabricated Magnetoelectric Sensor Arrays for Room-Temperature Magnetoencephalography" on July 23, 2014.

Prof. Xiaoqin Chen joined us as a visiting scholar from Hubei University, China on July 22, 2014.

Nian gave an invited presentation at WPAFB, Dayton OH, entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" on July 10, 2014.

Nian gave an invited talk at the International Conference Microwave Magnetics (ICMM 2014) at Tohoku University, Japan entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" on June 30, 2014.

Nian gave a seminar at Xi'an Jiaotong University entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" on June 18, 2014.

Nian gave a seminar at Tsinghua University entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Memory, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" on June 16, 2014.

Professor Hong Wang from Xi'an Jiaotong University gave us an ECE Invited Presenttion entitled "Novel Dielectric Materials for Passive Integration and Electronic Packaging" at Northeastern University, May 20, 2014.

Nian gave an invited presentation at ISAF/IWATMD/PFM 2014 at The Penn State University, entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" on May 15, 2014.

Prof. Haosu Luo from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences gave us an invited presentation in the ECE Department on ultra-sensitive magnetoelectric sensors at Northeastern University, May 9, 2014.

Nian's application for promotion to full professor was approved on April 15, 2014. Cheers!

Nian gave a seminar co-sponsored by IEEE Boston GRS, AESS, PELS, MAG, IM, AP, which is entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" at the Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, Northeastern University, Burlington, MA, April 9, 2014.

Nian gave a presentation in the GRC Technology Transfer e-Workshop entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics", April 9, 2014.

Nian gave a seminar entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" in Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, March 28, 2014.

Nian gave an invited presentation entitled "Integrated Magnetics and Multiferroics for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" in the Nano Giga Challenges 2014 Workshop on March 14, 2014.

Nian gave an invited presentation entitled "Integrated Multiferroics for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" to The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems(TANMS) on March 7, 2014.

Nian gave an invited presentation on "Integrated Multiferroic Heterostructures and Low-Power Devices for Sensing, Power, RF and Microwave Electronics" at US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD on February 28, 2014.

Prof. Xiaoqing Pan from the University of Michigan gave us an invited presentation in the ECE Department on "Structure and Dynamic Behaviors of Ferroelectrics/Multiferroics" on February 27, 2014.

Tianxiang Nan has been selected as one of the five finalists for the Best Student Presentation Award of IEEE Magnetics Conference (Intermag) 2014 in Dresden, Germany. Congratulations!

Two new members joined our group on Sept. 3, 2013: Dr. Zhongqiang Hu joins as as a postdoctoral scientist from Argonne National Laboratory, and Y. Utku Sevincli joins us from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Invited presentation "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Low Power Devices", Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K., Sept. 28, 2012.

Invited presentation "Voltage Control of Magnetism in Multiferroic Heterostructures and Devices", Workshop on Magnetoelectric Phenomena and Devices, The Royal Society, London, U.K., Sept. 24~25, 2012,

Prof. Ichiro Takeuchi from University of Maryland gave an invited presentation "Magnetoelectric sensors and other devices based on all-thin-film multiferroic heterostructures" on Thursday, September 20, 2012.

Invited talk "Voltage Contol of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at Wuhan Universuty, June 14, 2012.

Invited talk "Voltage Contol of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at Tsinghua Universuty, June 8, 2012.

Invited talk "Voltage Contol of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at Peking University, June 4, 2012.

Jing Wu had his Ph.D. defense on May 31, 2012.

Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, April 30, 2012.

S3TEC/ Mechanical Engineering Micro Nano Joint Seminar presentation on "E-field Control of Magnetism in Layered Multiferroic Heterostructures, a New Paradigm for Tunable RF/Microwave Components and Spintronics" at MIT on April 18th, 2012.

Invited talk at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, November 28, 2011.

Invited talk at The University of New Orleans on November 16, 2011.

Invited talk at the MS&T 2011 Conference at Columbus, OH on October 19, 2011.

E-field control of AMR, GMR, and exchange bias, leading to great opportunities for spintronics based on multiferroic heterostructures (Appl. Phys. Lett., 98, 222509 (2011) and Adv. Funct. Mater., 21, 2593-2598 (2011)).

Yunume Obi and Xing Xing had their Ph.D. defense on July 27, 2011.

Invited Seminar: Prof. Hao Xin from the ECE Department, University of Arizona gave an invited talk on "Metamaterials for Microwave Applications" on June 15, 2011 in our department.